As the title suggests.
I've noticed that if you shoot the Engineers literally as soon as they start hacking the terminals it's shut off the terminal on numerous occasions.

What was really quite amusing was in one mission, as an Antag, one of the raiders kept messaging me saying "quit it" and "stop it", to the host migration. It was in the rescue the third protector mission (Destroyer of Worlds?). They quit the match. I thought that the constant host migration was because I kept killing the host, but odd that he kept returning instantly.
Anyhoo.....
The player who'd been messaging me then messaged me and said "reported".
I replied: "WTF?"
I tried to explain that how on earth could I cause a host migration, in a raider team when I was the antagonist. He/she said it was because I was using 'crash game software' supposedly. He/she said there is software out there that can crash games etc etc. I explained "how can I do that on a PS4?"
The conversation ended. LOL

Is there any possibility you can put in a game parameter that if Cortez has to go back for more aleph, on the first stage of a mission, you can allow players to leave without a penalty?

Case in point; I played the Beast's layer with three T2 players, one R6 Hans, a R5 Hive and Mikah. There was a T2 R3 Rak Antagonist. The Hans player rage quit after a couple of deaths. I killed the Rak every time and stayed by the first bridge to take out the Rak when he appeared. He managed to sneak across the bridge to the middle platform where he killed both the remaining players and all aleph was looted. I moved to to the Aleph generator and guarded it. I also had full 5 aleph stored. No matter what I did, I couldn't stop my team mates being taken out by the Antagonist. If I went to the first platform, the loot got stolen. If I stayed there or the 2nd platform the Antagonist just killed the to R6 players. We had '0' aleph in the generator and already Cortez had been back for more aleph and mid way through lives.

I repeatedly asked three times for a surrender in a row. They refused. There was NO WAY that we were going to survive Marmalade battle first stage, let alone actually get to him, so I simply quit the game. I feel if a game is completely lost there is no point in continuing. If a high T1 ranked player is telling low T2 players to surrender they know what they're talking about and they should listen.

So MSE, in this case, if you've asked repeatedly for a surrender, are still in the first stage, of normally 3, of the mission I think that at least, you should allow those who have asked for the surrender to be allowed to without a penalty.
I would also like to state that since you brought in sudden death, then surrender is really only the option in many situations.
I respect people who want to fight on, but when it's them, that are dieing all the time, they need to start showing respect to the high level player WHO ISN'T dieing and surrender.

....If we are given the option to turn it off then queue time will take longer.....

Erm....no. If people aren't queuing to play as Antagonist, it means more people are queuing up to play as a Raider, meaning faster queue times, due to the larger pool of players.

I should also have added the fact that every MMO game I've played gave tye option of a PvE, a PvP and a restricted server, which is PvP play at set times during the day.
I completely agree with WHITEBLEIDD in that most people would have switched off the Antagonist option openly showing, to MSE, they never wanted it. If you want the end of month rewards, that is a score of 285, you've no choice but to play Antagonist.

Guys. If MSE added a system where players could turn off the option to have an antagonist invade their game then every player in the game would turn it off and leave it off. They might as well just scrap antagonist from the game all together if they do this.

I get annoyed fighting an antagonist on certain missions like "Fistful of Sand" or "Beast's Liar" because its extremely easy for antagonist to win. Kill the protector or use Valeria's Shakura to shut down the bridge aka the only way to cross other than Alicia who can float over or a Harec or can maybe possibly kill the Valeria. However, for the most part I enjoy fighting an antagonist whenever it is a challenge and not just unfair gameplay.

However, if MSE is going to make an antagonist free game then I would suggest a solo queue that you can invite friends to. This solo queue provides less rewards (because lets face it in the current state of the game the adds are useless at mmr 40 or lower) and if you lose the mission it will not go towards the pot. By "less rewards" I mean majorly low. around 500 gold, 500 talent points, xp doesn't matter it can be whatever MSE wants it or as whatever people complain about what it should be.

I think they should remove Antagonists from treasure chest matches, so players can win what they didn't the previous day. That's only fair.
I do enjoy playing against Antagonists as well but from the point of playing as an Antagonist, the rewards are just nowhere near as they should be for taking on a 4man raider team. They should be getting triple the award, if not quadruple for winning. This would also give more people the incentive to play as an Antagonist. Beating a T1, high ranked team is an accomplishment and yet the rewards for doing so are pitiful.

This post is from 2017 and mse still refuses to add this option. I wonder how many people would still be playing this game if only they had listened :/.

Geez......
This company has a deathwish.

Thanks for that.